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GRE Words 51-100****
GRE Words 51-100***************************************************8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ossify | turn hard or into bone |
| precarious | unusually advanced for a young age, especially dealing with emotional age. |
| salubrious | dealing with health; salutary |
| salutary | dealing with health; salubrious |
| sanctimonious | a display of belief that is usually intended to mock |
| sanguinary | red or dealing with blood |
| truncate | to cut short |
| turpitude | depraved or execrable in behavior |
| ameliorate | to make better |
| ageist | like racism for old people |
| convivial | friendly of jovial |
| ersatz | a replacement or fiduciary |
| indolent | dormant or torpid |
| pallor | sickly or yellow in color |
| pejorative | negative in connotation |
| putative | reputed as being true |
| repose | to be at rest |
| trope | any sort of metaphor in writing |
| vale | life and everything it encompasses |
| vestige | a trace of something that is now gone |
| virulent | actively poisonous or noxious |
| desultory | lacking in order, messy |
| cloying | making an overly emotional display |
| aver | to assert with confidence |
| celerity | speed or quickness |
| censorious | to e degrading or fault-finding |
| deprecate | to rag on or speak negatively of |
| extrapolate | to expand upon; conjecture |
| extrinsic | superfluous |
| fetter | chains or restraints that binds your legs |
| malediction | a curse |
| panacea | a cure-all |
| postulate | to question, ask, or claim |
| prevaricate | to lie |
| sallow | yellow or sickly in color, wan |
| unfetter | to set free |
| salacious | lustful pictures or photographs; porn |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| chary | wary or cautious |
| chimerical | wildly fanciful |
| choleric | irascible or easily angered |
| dilatory | tardy |
| fastidious | nit picking |
| fatuous | silly, not really believable |
| fecund | fertile |
| marshal | to organize |
| paragon | a perfect example to aspire to |
| pariah | an outcast |
| prodigious | big in size or scope |
| sequester | to squelch or hide away |
| upbraid | to abase |
| urbane | appearing well bread in speech and mannerisms |